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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I clicked the spoiler and it didn't change much for me.

    I would absolutely have eventually gotten spoiled before I reached that point because I have forgotten so much ( i was halfway through dressrosa) I may even have to read from marineford, since its where i stopped watching the anime.

    I don't really understand it though, maybe that changes things.

    Oh well I get spoiled on things all the time I haven't watched, its super hard to not stupidly click things. Once I had I just went and read the last two chapters to get it out of the way.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    presumably it's the ad service they contract with that is responsible for targeting the ads and is responsible for doing a bad job

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skeith wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Last Night on AniMenagerie S:

    On Symphogear, Maria went from having no powers to getting like 3 power-ups in a single episode.

    Akibaranger was here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.

    Thunderbolt Fantasy had a Necromancer dancing on a boat while her undead minions murdered everyone on the shore. Also a boss joined the party and didn't seem to lose too many levels in the process.

    What episode of Symphogear are you folks up to?

    Episode 9 of Symphogear GX. This coming Saturday we're going to marathon 9-13 and the OVAs. Maybe do one episode of AXZ?

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never understood why so many of Crunchyroll's ads were the same ad.

    What is the point of playing the same ad four times in a row?


    It's because they don't have enough ads. (Same reason for showing "in-house" ads.) Youtube can manage actual companies you've heard of for ads, but Crunchyroll doesn't have that kind of reach. When you have, like, four ads you can show, your options for cycling through them are all terrible. (And even Youtube doesn't have that much variety, and have been pushing Premium lately.)

    Anyway, the economics of even video ads are awful. Maybe a couple cents per ad, which compares quite unfavorably with $5/month from a subscriber, and you have to stream video for those cents. I can see Crunchyroll doing the math and realizing that they just don't want to chase after those cents. Hard to actually prove this, as Crunchyroll isn't a publically-traded company, (but was owned by a publically-traded company? Point is, there's no Earnings report) but there's a good reason so many video sharing sites folded over the years. I think there's room to pursue the bargain crowd, but I really can't blame them for dropping the free access.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    it's absolutely just because they got eaten by their competition so now there's no competition with a free option to compete against

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    it's absolutely just because they got eaten by their competition so now there's no competition with a free option to compete against

    Except they didn't do it back during VRV time when everything was one sub.

    Everything is pushing subscription lately. The ad market is losing. Video is just the most expensive thing to push and is why so many companies die trying to get into the market.

    Does any of the big services offer free stuff like that? Hulu I guess? Though hell they still do ads even when their sub tiers last I used it.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    it's absolutely just because they got eaten by their competition so now there's no competition with a free option to compete against

    Except they didn't do it back during VRV time when everything was one sub.

    Everything is pushing subscription lately. The ad market is losing. Video is just the most expensive thing to push and is why so many companies die trying to get into the market.

    Does any of the big services offer free stuff like that? Hulu I guess? Though hell they still do ads even when their sub tiers last I used it.

    Hulu and Peacock have free tiers. No one wants YouTube's paid tier.

    Edit: This isn't right, Hulu ended the free version at some point in the past.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I clicked the spoiler and it didn't change much for me.
    Yeah, last time I was on an OP binge I stalled on the prison arc (the one where they get the fishman) and for me the spoiler is "neat! I guess". Maybe everyone is pussyfooting around stating the implications too much to really give it meaning without being caught up.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never understood why so many of Crunchyroll's ads were the same ad.

    What is the point of playing the same ad four times in a row?


    It's because they don't have enough ads. (Same reason for showing "in-house" ads.) Youtube can manage actual companies you've heard of for ads, but Crunchyroll doesn't have that kind of reach. When you have, like, four ads you can show, your options for cycling through them are all terrible. (And even Youtube doesn't have that much variety, and have been pushing Premium lately.)

    Anyway, the economics of even video ads are awful. Maybe a couple cents per ad, which compares quite unfavorably with $5/month from a subscriber, and you have to stream video for those cents. I can see Crunchyroll doing the math and realizing that they just don't want to chase after those cents. Hard to actually prove this, as Crunchyroll isn't a publically-traded company, (but was owned by a publically-traded company? Point is, there's no Earnings report) but there's a good reason so many video sharing sites folded over the years. I think there's room to pursue the bargain crowd, but I really can't blame them for dropping the free access.

    But if Crunchyroll only has enough advertisers for, say, two of a four-slot ad-break, why not just drop the remaining two slots?

    Do they get paid for every time it's repeated?

    And if they do, why would advertisers agree to pay for their ads used as "filler"?

    I mean regular ads are bad enough but they've gotta know that having to sit through the exact same video four times in a row per ad-break, per episode just creates an negative experience for the watcher. I've often sat through the same ad multiple times thinking, "This ad-spot doesn't even make sense. They literally just showed me this. I've already been advertised to. I couldn't possibly be more aware of Genshin-fucking-Impact. It is now a brand of have decidedly negative feelings toward."

    Then again, I guess that could be the point. The more unpleasant the free option, the greater the incentive to pay.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The more unpleasant the free option, the greater the incentive to just pirate it instead.

    The free option isn't there to be super profitable, it's to keep people in your ecosystem, both away from competitors and to discourage piracy. Once someone has the software and knowhow to easily get those shows elsewhere they'll be less likely to pay for it in the future, especially now that streaming is fracturing into a hundred different services, all wanting a full sub, with the exact same total pool of cash available.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't think Hulu has a free tier anymore either. The free part of Peacock is pretty limited as well.

    The best free option is, of course, Tubi.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think about how bad YouTube has become and about how it didn't used to be this way. About how the ad-creep began and progressed over the years.

    Now there are multiple, unskippable ads on every video. Even videos that are only a few seconds long have ads as preamble.

    And some of the ads, though skippable, are more like infomercials. I once realized a video I'd had on in the background had gone to commercial 15 minutes ago, only to discover that the "ad" was an hour and twenty minutes long. A video in the middle of my video, as it were.

    But at the same time I guess I'm not... owed free, uninterrupted viewing.

    But holy shit are they pushing the limits of tolerability.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hulu hasn't had a free tier in years. I used to have it, then upgraded to the "paid, but still ads" tier when they changed it up.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    One Piece 1044.
    It's a spoiler that's mostly big because of general Void Century hype over a long time. It links Luffy to another character seemingly of the same type as himself, both in terms of beating on tyrants, and in terms of beating on them with a funny animation-joke. (The five elders also say that he is indeed a rubber-man.) And of course to the Ds who die smiling, but that part is also literally in his name.

    I imagine that from outside it seems pretty abstract for a spoiler.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Divergence Eve is so 2000s it has a Playstation slogan on a random computer monitor.

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Youtube Premium is some of the best money I spend every month. I've had it for a couple of years now and hearing how bad the ad situation has become I feel even better about it. Yeah it's not cheap but I watch more content on Youtube than any other streaming service. I also primarily watch it on TV where adblock isn't really an option.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    So, the librarian at my high school asked me for manga recommendations (age-appropriate for 15 year-olds) as she has some money to invest in new literature and has heard the teens enjoy the manga.

    But she has no experience in this arena/domain of literature, so she emailed me.

    And now I bring this question to you.

    Lets design a list of ten age-appropriate properties/books to recommend to my coworker for our high school library.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I don't think Hulu has a free tier anymore either. The free part of Peacock is pretty limited as well.

    The best free option is, of course, Tubi.

    Pluto.TV and Youtube as well!

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    So, the librarian at my high school asked me for manga recommendations (age-appropriate for 15 year-olds) as she has some money to invest in new literature and has heard the teens enjoy the manga.

    But she has no experience in this arena/domain of literature, so she emailed me.

    And now I bring this question to you.

    Lets design a list of ten age-appropriate properties/books to recommend to my coworker for our high school library.

    *Gets flashbacks to our recent "Top 50 games of all time" thread*

    Ummm, anyway!

    1. Fullmetal Alchemist
    2. Kaguya-Sama: Love is War
    3. (???) Ancient Magus Bride (???)

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ooh, ooh, ooh

    Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko

    (I guess it technically has some light nudity, but not explicit)

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Definitely Fullmetal Alchemist, they're at the right age for YA stuff and that definitely fits the bill.

    My Hero Academia seems a solid pick for that age bracket as well.

    Komi San Can't Communicate perhaps? Heard good things about that one re:portrayal of social anxiety and it's a comedy.

    Black Clover. The dumb feel-good power of friendship shonen for all ages but especially teenagers.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    So, the librarian at my high school asked me for manga recommendations (age-appropriate for 15 year-olds) as she has some money to invest in new literature and has heard the teens enjoy the manga.

    But she has no experience in this arena/domain of literature, so she emailed me.

    And now I bring this question to you.

    Lets design a list of ten age-appropriate properties/books to recommend to my coworker for our high school library.

    What age (freshman books aren't necessarily the same as senior books), what setting (is this a conservative or religious school?), and what volume of books is being considered? No matter what the answers, Yotsuba is the easy get. Some other ideas:
    -Laidback Camp
    -Girls' Last Tour
    -Kino's Journey
    -Gon
    -Azumanga Daioh

    For the next set, I'm going to list in terms of, no strict content restrictions. I do interlibrary loans literally all the time and these often come from high school libraries.

    If they specifically want some "boy" stuff:
    - Naruto
    - Bleach

    If they specifically want some "girl" stuff:
    - Anything by Io Sakisaka (Ao Haru Ride; Love Me, Love Me Not)
    - My Love Story
    - A Sign of Affection
    - Nana (this one is older teen for sure)

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Really don't think FMA needs a violence caveat for American teenagers. 99% certain they've seen worse in their media because blood and guts are par for the course.

    It's the dread nipple that's arcane and forbidden in this society.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    FMA has some R rated violence in there, especially early on. As a caveat.

    Big Brudda

    I-

    ...

    Okay, you may have a point.

    Permission to replace FMA with Silver Spoon?

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh, Hunter x Hunter might be a good one too. Only problem with that one would be Hisoka and his whole "being Hisoka" thing.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Oh, Hunter x Hunter might be a good one too. Only problem with that one would be Hisoka and his whole "being Hisoka" thing.

    Well, "will never be completed" might be an issue too.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I would only recommend finished series, personally

    I would also probably try to limit the dumb battle series junk food, even if I enjoy that stuff as well

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hunter x Hunter I think teens would like, but it is possibly the most extreme work in the Shonen Jump label. More extreme works come from different labels. I will say Chainsaw Man seems interested in challenging that title, but I'm nowhere near caught up with it.

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Finished 86 and I liked it. It has a pretty good stopping point if they never adapt any more of it.
    I got real worried about the state of the show when they inserted a kid character into it, and while the second half was definitely not as strong for me as the first, I think it manages to hold it together.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Really don't think FMA needs a violence caveat for American teenagers. 99% certain they've seen worse in their media because blood and guts are par for the course.

    It's the dread nipple that's arcane and forbidden in this society.

    The violence in FMA isn't just like, someone getting decapitated in a goofy manner a la HxH. It's things like children being put through the ringer because of their shitty parents.

    Yes and? They're the age for YA, that's gonna be a subject matter that can be explored. After MG the gloves come off in stories. It's why YA is so vast and popular, and YA is specifically geared to be the introduction to more dark subjects.

    They may not yet be legal adults but they're not children, at least when it comes to media.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Maddoc wrote: »
    I would only recommend finished series, personally

    I would also probably try to limit the dumb battle series junk food, even if I enjoy that stuff as well

    Hunter x Hunter is finished though. After the big tree it ended. There is nothing after, the story is done, the climax reached and resolved.

    I will not be taking any questions and any mentions of a boat will be taken as the ramblings of a madperson.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    What age (freshman books aren't necessarily the same as senior books), what setting (is this a conservative or religious school?), and what volume of books is being considered?

    -- Age: 15 year-old to 18 year-old

    -- Setting: Small town/semi-rural community (conservative/liberal leanings probably split down the middle)

    -- Volume of Books: I can't say as I wouldn't be ordering these

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Really don't think FMA needs a violence caveat for American teenagers. 99% certain they've seen worse in their media because blood and guts are par for the course.

    It's the dread nipple that's arcane and forbidden in this society.

    The violence in FMA isn't just like, someone getting decapitated in a goofy manner a la HxH. It's things like children being put through the ringer because of their shitty parents.

    And the war crimes!

    And the body horror!

    And the crimes!

    Come to think of it, child neglect is one of the least worst things goi- *remembers Hawkeye's whole "my dad tattooed his research on my back" sitch* You know what, never mind!

    Let's take FMA off that list for now, shall we?

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    What I currently have ready to shoot off to her via email is:
    I would recommend these books/series as generally good choices:
    -- Naruto: 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 1 (Uzumaki Naruto / The Worst Client / Dreams) by Masashi Kishimoto
    -- One Piece: East Blue 1-2-3 by Eiichiro Oda
    -- My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 by Kohei Horikoshi
    -- Dragon Ball (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama
    -- My Love Story!!, Vol. 1 by Kazune Kawahara
    -- Haikyu!!, Vol. 1 by Haruichi Furudate
    -- A Silent Voice #1 by Yoshitoki Oima

    In terms of being connected to academics, these books/series would be outstanding choices:
    -- Cells at Work! #1 by Akane Shimizu
    -- Manga Classics by various creators

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    • Boarding School Juliet - Completed, 16 Volumes (Romeo & Juliet set in an anime high school)
    • Erased - Completed, 9 Volumes (You already saw the anime for this)
    • Saint Young Men - Ongoing, ? Volumes (Comedy where Jesus & Buddha are roommates in modern day Japan, I think the physical volumes are double-sized)
    • School Zone Girls - Ongoing, 4+ Volumes (Slice of life comedy about a bunch of different girls at an all-girls school)
    • Tomo-chan is a Girl - Completed, 8 Volumes (Romcom where a tomboy wants to get her idiot childhood friend to see that she's attracted to him)

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